Hey guys, I’m excited to deliver this very first issue of Your Panda3D Magazine to you. This is a new Panda3D magazine I just created.
I don’t know how this new magazine will be doing. Hopefully well, because if there is interest in it, I’ll be glad to be publishing more issues on a regular basis.
Contents
So, what will you find in this issue? Here are the topics covered in the first issue along with some samples from the magazine.
First, we’ll be modeling a UFO in Blender. I’m planning to make a step-by-step Blender tutorial like that in each issue. This column will be called Model of the Month.
Next, we’ll see how to bake textures from materials in Blender so that we can later use them in other software, and in particular in Panda3D.
Speaking of which… In the next article we’ll learn how to export the model from Blender in GLTF format and then load it in Panda3D.
We’ll make use of the UFO model also in some of the following articles. One of them is the article on position, rotation and scale intervals, in which we’ll create an animation.
Then, in the article on encoding the window output into a video we’ll see how to capture the screen in Panda3D and create a video in MP4 format.
In the GUI column we’ll see how to integrate the Kivy framework in your Panda3D application using the panda3d-kivy add-on by Cheaterman. We’ll use our UFO scene in this article again to demonstrate how you can steer the flying saucer from the GUI created in Kivy.
Finally, in the Science Corner column, we’ll be talking about gravitational acceleration and we’ll make a simplified simulation of a freely falling object that needs a different amount of time on different planets and other space objects to touch the ground.
How to Get It?
I will have to charge some money for the following issues of Your Panda3D Magazine because this is my work and it takes pretty long to write all the articles, edit an issue and publish it. I do it all by myself. You can purchase Your Panda3D Magazine on Amazon, issue 1 (1/2022) is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SR785WV.
But instead you can get the first issue for FREE from my online store.
Here’s how to do it.
To download the first issue follow these steps:
1) Go to my online store at https://prosperocoder.com/store/
2) Select Your Panda3D Magazine 1 (1/2022)
3) Click the Add to cart button (the price is $0.00)
4) At the top of the page click View cart.
5) Scroll down and hit Proceed to checkout.
6) Enter your email address to which the pdf will be sent and then scroll down and hit Place order.
That’s it. You can now download the first issue of the magazine and also the ZIP file with all the code and assets.
You will also find all the files that you need, including the assets used in the magazine, on Github.
I really hope you’ll like Your Panda3D Magazine. I will be grateful for any feedback from you. What do you like? What don’t you like? What would you improve? Maybe you have some Panda3D-related ideas that you would like to read about in the future issues of the magazine.
There’s also a companion video to this issue that you will find at https://youtu.be/R-lXatHB96c
You can contact me via e-mail: prosperocoder@gmail.com. You can also leave a comment on my blog or on my YouTube channel below the article and video respectively that are related to this issue. Enjoy reading.